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Old 05/04/08, 9:30 AM   #1
Storming
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My cooldowns and yours.. STILL no combo addon exists?

Your cooldowns.. natur, antagonist, afflicted2, etc.

Mine.. chronometer, classtimers, dotimer, etc.

That's great but where are the addons that handle both? I'm currently using afflicted2 and dotimer because MY shit and YOUR shit are equally important.

I've already read through the obvious threads related to this and 20% of such threads are comprised of people complaining that they need to use 2-3 addons or more just to handle <situation X> which is unacceptable to me, and apparently to others.

Why in the hell doesn't afflicted or natur or ANYthing track cooldowns on both sides of the fence? If such an addon exists or if there's the possibility of adding personal timer tracking for cooldowns/stuns/etc to an existing addon, then who do I have to paypal to make it happen?

I need to know how long until that warrior can burn recklessness again. How long until that warlock can deathcoil me again. How long until my cheapshot expires. How long until my crippling poison expires. And so on.

But why do I need 17 fucking addons to handle it all?

Incidentally, I'm aware that natur is very indisposed currently and I've dropped it in favor of other things. DR tracking, however, is of paramount importance in arena and just further shores up my case for the need of an addon that handles all of these various important tasks.

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Old 05/04/08, 10:14 AM   #2
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What i would like to add to this:

Mulitple tanking Warriors in raid, i can only see when MY Demoshout / ThunderClap / Sunder expires if i have someone overwrite it with lets say specced Demoshout my "ClassTimer Bars" disappears the debuff is on but heck i actually would still like to know how long this debuff is on.

There is no addon out for this yet or, one which actually syncs such debuffs between a class eg: warriors ?

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Old 05/04/08, 11:23 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Storming View Post
Your cooldowns.. natur, antagonist, afflicted2, etc.

Mine.. chronometer, classtimers, dotimer, etc.

That's great but where are the addons that handle both? I'm currently using afflicted2 and dotimer because MY shit and YOUR shit are equally important.

I've already read through the obvious threads related to this and 20% of such threads are comprised of people complaining that they need to use 2-3 addons or more just to handle <situation X> which is unacceptable to me, and apparently to others.

Why in the hell doesn't afflicted or natur or ANYthing track cooldowns on both sides of the fence? If such an addon exists or if there's the possibility of adding personal timer tracking for cooldowns/stuns/etc to an existing addon, then who do I have to paypal to make it happen?

I need to know how long until that warrior can burn recklessness again. How long until that warlock can deathcoil me again. How long until my cheapshot expires. How long until my crippling poison expires. And so on.

But why do I need 17 fucking addons to handle it all?

Incidentally, I'm aware that natur is very indisposed currently and I've dropped it in favor of other things. DR tracking, however, is of paramount importance in arena and just further shores up my case for the need of an addon that handles all of these various important tasks.
I'm always surprised why people cry about the fact that free addons don't do what they need. If you're that interested in something that tracks both, write your own addon. On a more technical note, the likely reason that there is no addon yet which tracks both personal and opponent cooldowns is because, while thematically similar, implementation is vastly different. Tracking personal cooldowns is done by getting information from the client, and is fairly easy. Tracking opponent cooldowns, on the other hand, requires parsing the combat log, or looking at target buffs, or your debuffs, or similar things. It's a whole tuckfon more complicated.

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What i would like to add to this:

Mulitple tanking Warriors in raid, i can only see when MY Demoshout / ThunderClap / Sunder expires if i have someone overwrite it with lets say specced Demoshout my "ClassTimer Bars" disappears the debuff is on but heck i actually would still like to know how long this debuff is on.

There is no addon out for this yet or, one which actually syncs such debuffs between a class eg: warriors ?
The reason your bar disappears is because your client doesn't have access to time remaining on debuffs placed on your target by something else.

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Old 05/04/08, 5:08 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Obould View Post
What i would like to add to this:

Mulitple tanking Warriors in raid, i can only see when MY Demoshout / ThunderClap / Sunder expires if i have someone overwrite it with lets say specced Demoshout my "ClassTimer Bars" disappears the debuff is on but heck i actually would still like to know how long this debuff is on.

There is no addon out for this yet or, one which actually syncs such debuffs between a class eg: warriors ?
This can be easily done by configuring the target's debuff bar, with ElkBuffBars.

For example, if I have imp demo shout or imp thunderclap, when I put them onto the tank's targets, they will overwrite the existing "non-talented" debuffs, and also drawn with different colors so you will know when they expire.

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Old 05/06/08, 10:43 AM   #5
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The main feature I miss from pre-2.4 NECB is tracking PvE-related cooldowns of my raid members. It doesn't seem to work with any reliability anymore. oRA2 provdes some of what I want, but it is far from ideal. Firstly, it doesn't show heroism, which is often what I am most interested in knowing about. Secondly, it is either all or nothing. With NECB I could click on the individual raider I cared about to see his cooldown timer. With oRA2 it is a big block of bars taking up valuable screen space.

ClassTimers has been perfect for the "my cooldowns" half of the equation. But for raid leading, I sorely miss the "your cooldowns" part. The available "your cooldowns" mods all seem focused on PvP. As a raid leader I couldn't care less about someone's Escape Artist cooldown, and all the cooldown mods seem to show those instead of stuff like Battle Rez/Soulstone/Heroism.

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Old 05/06/08, 2:10 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Adoriele View Post
I'm always surprised why people cry about the fact that free addons don't do what they need. If you're that interested in something that tracks both, write your own addon.
Apparently he doesn't have the time/skillset to write an addon and neither do I. But he did say he was willing to pay someone to write an addon that does this.

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Old 05/06/08, 4:59 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by KinetiK View Post
Apparently he doesn't have the time/skillset to write an addon and neither do I. But he did say he was willing to pay someone to write an addon that does this.
Consider that my salaried paid time is worth $40/hour and an addon like this is an easy 20-30 hours of work after development, testing, QA, documentation, and distribution are all said and done.

If you're seriously willing to cough up $1200+ for an addon, then a) I'm in the wrong business, and b) we need to talk. :P

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Old 05/06/08, 9:08 PM   #8
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I think RBM will do this for people that also have the RBM add-on. The wowace site seems to be down or I'd link the page for it.

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Old 05/06/08, 9:44 PM   #9
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RBM does look interesting, however it looks as though it doesn't support enemy cooldowns and Diminishing Returns at all. So it's still just another mod to add to the list of the original post, however it does combine a few of them.

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Old 05/07/08, 6:36 AM   #10
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The thing is, if you're using Ace addon, and you are (Chronometer for one), you already have 90% of the code required for the next addon of that type. This is all embedded as libraries and will use a bunch of diskspace, but when they're all loaded, the libs will only be loaded in to memory once. All addons of the same type (to put it roughly) will be using the same libraries, so the overhead is very minimal in this case.
Basically all you put in your addon folder is the code that's missing for you to be able to track your enemies cooldowns (if you already have on that tracks your own), so in that case I'm afraid the whining about the addons not doing everything in the world is pointless.

Last time I checked, though, Natur wasn't Ace, and probably doesn't have any of the libraries to share with other Ace addons.

So... in short, if you can find all the addons you want, and can use without problems, in Ace versions, you're most likely adding very little overhead. As an added bonus, if one addon isn't being developed anymore and subsequently breaks, you only lose a small part of your UI.

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Old 05/07/08, 10:19 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Docjowles View Post
The main feature I miss from pre-2.4 NECB is tracking PvE-related cooldowns of my raid members. It doesn't seem to work with any reliability anymore. oRA2 provdes some of what I want, but it is far from ideal. Firstly, it doesn't show heroism, which is often what I am most interested in knowing about. Secondly, it is either all or nothing. With NECB I could click on the individual raider I cared about to see his cooldown timer. With oRA2 it is a big block of bars taking up valuable screen space.

ClassTimers has been perfect for the "my cooldowns" half of the equation. But for raid leading, I sorely miss the "your cooldowns" part. The available "your cooldowns" mods all seem focused on PvP. As a raid leader I couldn't care less about someone's Escape Artist cooldown, and all the cooldown mods seem to show those instead of stuff like Battle Rez/Soulstone/Heroism.
If you feal adventerous, give CDCount a try (yes, shameless self promotion): CDCount | World of Warcraft Addons | World of Warcraft @ Curse.com.

Just set the "track others" feature to "*:Heroism:600" and you should get timer bars for all shamans in the raid, who are in comat log range. If you just want the timer for your Shaman replace the asterix with his name.

Might be possible to use this to see Drums cooldowns as well (enable the debug mode and check if the drums produce a debug message).

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Old 05/07/08, 4:25 PM   #12
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I don't understand - the two addons do completely different things - why combine them? What do you hope to gain?

Pick the best one to perform each function, install it, configure it, and move on. Is it really all that difficult to install and configure two addons instead of one?

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Old 05/07/08, 10:32 PM   #13
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Old 05/09/08, 8:12 PM   #14
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Consider that my salaried paid time is worth $40/hour and an addon like this is an easy 20-30 hours of work after development, testing, QA, documentation, and distribution are all said and done.

If you're seriously willing to cough up $1200+ for an addon, then a) I'm in the wrong business, and b) we need to talk. :P
Seriously! I'd love to write addons as a full-time job for what I make in my real job.

As far as an addon combining these two requests, yes, it is possible. I don't think it's very wise, though. There's different options needed in both cases, not to mention handling the events would be different. As a previous poster said, they can re-use a lot of the same code internally (for display, etc.), but I believe the logic would be a fair bit different. In a PvP environment, I'd want the two displays to be distinct enough that I don't confuse my cooldowns with yours, or the rest of the group's, or the enemy group's.

I could see a generic cooldown mod being written, and modules created to show cooldowns based on who owns them.

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Old 05/10/08, 8:20 AM   #15
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I'm looking for a cooldown timer at the moment, showing things like Icon of the Silver Crescent and Inner Focus - none that I get seem to work, ideally they will be as customisable as possible.

And to the OP, I agree - Imo class timers is the best DoTimer out there so it should have a plugin for Cooldown timers and enemy Cooldowns too. Just imo though..

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